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The piranesi effect /

The work of Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) has captivated artists, architects and designers for centuries. Although contemporary Australia is a long way from eighteenth-century Rome, it is home to substantial collections of his works, the largest being at the State Library...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stone, Kerrianne (Editor ), Vaughan, Gerard (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Author biographies; Foreword; Preface; 1. The Piranesi Tourist; 2. The Piranesi Effect; 3. Piranesi in Tiepolo's Venetian studio; 4. Piranesi: Rediscovering antiquity; 5. Una Roma visuale: Piranesi and Vasi; 6. Piranesi's creative imagination: The capriccio and the carceri; 7 Irrational architecture in the Carcero d'invenzione; 8. Piranesi and MONA: Inspiration or retrospective myth?; 9. Piranesi and Australian printmakers; 10. Roman antiquity: Piranesi versus Mariette; 11. Piranesi and Pirro Ligorio: The vernacular antiquarian imagination.
  • 12. Archbishop Goold's first Paris edition of Piranesi's works13. The Baroque Bishop: Piranesi in the collection of J.A. Goold; 14. Auckland's Piranesi collection
  • The Kupferstich
  • Kabinett of Dr Auburn; 15. Unfinished symphony: My experience of Piranesi; 16. The evolution of Piranesi's plates; 17. Piranesi's last decade: A reappraisal of the Vasi; Appendix; Notes; References; Acknowledgments; Index.